whole chicken comes out lovely and moist.almost all the recipes I do are 8hours plus as I work- lamb lends wonderfully to extra long cooking- morrocan tagines, curries, hot pot (brown potatoes under grill when finished) and shank and leg keftico, or with red wine both take ten hours min and are delicious I love it

Joining thread for inspiration, great ideas.Any suggestions for chicken thighs that wouldn't be too salty, so I can take off meat for 9mo ds? Maybe just brown skin, pop in pot with lemon and garlic. On high for 4 hours...would that work?

skiving - for jacket potatoes you need foil. Twist some into snakes, to make a platform for the spuds to stand on. You can buy crockpot inserts for this - it's to allow air to circulate under the food - but I've never seen any to fit my pot! Wrap each spud loosely in foil - this is to brown the skins; the hot metal does it. Cook on high.

Similar procedure for anything 'baked' - it's all about having a space under the food and a hot surface to brown the outsides

I'm currently munching my way through the best pork'n'beans I've ever made - go me! Main ingredients: pack of cannellini beans (soaked overnight); pack of Aldi's bratwurst + one of their smoked frankfurters, cut up; onions, garlic and veg. Yum!

I have recently been adding orzo pasta towards the end of the cooking time which soaks up loads of liquid and doesn't take very long to cook and is lovely!

Current fave in our house is curry. Chicken thighs, onions, tin coconut milk, tbsp curry pasta or to taste, tsp ginger, chicken stock cube small tin of chopped pineapple, handful of raisins. I do tend to heat some flour with the spices first and then slowly add coconut milk to make a nice thick sauce to pour over. You could just bung it all in but prob be a bit runny. Real hit with the kids, I guess because of the fruit.

Thanks for this, will be taking red cabbage out of slow cooker & putting chicken in in the morning My old crock pot diintegrated and Im a bit underwhelmed with its replacement. Recommendations for another new one much appreciated.